‘They chewed me up pretty good’: A US plaintiff attempted to use an AI avatar to argue their court case and the judges were far from amused

AI has many uses—or at least that’s what we keep being told—but one area where it might do some good is helping with the notoriously complex legal process. After all, should you find yourself faced with the task of self-representation in an upcoming court case, perhaps an AI may be able to present your arguments…

Read More

Preppered: an existential platformer is a game that’ll make you pay not just for your choices, but your sucky platforming skills, too

Preppered: an existential platformer, which releases today (April 7, if you’re reading this from the future), is shaping up to be a fascinating little exercise in interactivity. As you might’ve surmised from the title of the thing, it’s 100% a platformer—the ‘existential’ bit comes from the looming doom that’ll haunt your every step. Especially the…

Read More

So, it’s the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive

Profiteering, the AI boom, latterly the looming threat of tariffs—there are a lot of reasons why computer chips have become so expensive. But you probably wouldn’t have guessed another major reason is mirrors. More specifically, the insanely perfect mirrors inside the latest EUV lithography machines used to manufacture the most advanced chips. That’s according to…

Read More

How to unlock thermite in Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone Season 3 adds thermite, a (kind of) new lethal equipment. If you’re a lapsed Warzone player, that might sound very confusing, since it’s been in the battle royale before, but this lethal was removed in the Black Ops 6 era, only to make a return this season in a baffling way….

Read More

Former Awesomenauts developers finish the game they were working on when the studio went bankrupt in 2023, and it’ll be free for the first 24 hours after release

Awesomenauts developer Ronimo Games filed for bankruptcy in 2023, bringing a premature end to an unnamed project it had in development. But a year later, four former members of the studio including the CEO got back together to form a new studio called Rangatang and resumed work on the project, which is now set to…

Read More

Blue Prince review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? A first-person puzzle strategy adventure set in a mysterious mansion.Developer: DogubombPublisher: Raw FuryReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoStream Deck: PlayableLink: Official site I love Blue Prince so much I’m going to spend the next 1,500 words or so telling you as little about it…

Read More

Promise Mascot Agency review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? Absurdist narrative mascot wrangler/management sim.Release Date: April 10, 2025Developer: Kaizen Game WorksPublisher: Kaizen Game WorksReviewed on: Windows 11, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official Site The thing you need to understand about the world is that it’s run by money. Absent normal signifiers…

Read More

Nvidia hasn’t announced them yet but laptop vendors confirm that RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs are almost here, and they’ll both have 8 GB of VRAM

They’ve been rumoured/leaked about so much that the GeForce RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs are almost certainly ‘official’, even though Nvidia itself hasn’t said anything publicly. However, some of the biggest laptop vendors in the world have decided they’ll just do it anyway because everyone and their grandma already knows about them. The confirmations were…

Read More